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When you were growing up, what did you call these
bugs? And where are you from?
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rollie pollies duhh..
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Rollie them
anything else .
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e called them politicians. Every
time things get a little scary, they curl up in a ball
with their heads up their asses!
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I Write a comment,,.

'pill bug' is just a nickname for a very common kind of woodlouse. People seem to use it as though it's a technical name. Well, that was the case in the comment section of the last FJ post to do with woodlouse.

I grew up near Chicago and called them pill bugs.
And I remember whenever some cheeky ************ blurted out "rollie pollies" it would make my tiny 8-year-old mind so irrationally furious that I'm honestly surprised I wasn't a more violent child. Seriously, I've been grounded from Nintendo, pushed off off my bike, had my holographic Mewtwo card tumble-dried into bits of pulp; and yet I can't remember anything pissing me off more than the mongoloids across the street shouting "rollie pollies!".

Granted, it was usually the same asshole that used to get Cheeto dust/spit all over my controllers, so that very likely had a lot to do with it.